The "was This A Lucid Dream" Thread =)

[weefolk]

I think I had a lucid dream... I was walking to school and something happened that made me question the reality. I realized I was dreaming and tried to fly. I flew for about 50 feet before I got too excited and lost control. In the dream, I fell to the ground and woke up. Before I had this dream I had just learned about lucid dreams and was really interested in them, so that explains why I had one (i think).

[taketts]

Right I'm new here, but I had a wierd dream the other night. The dream was about me coming out a coma, and I noticed everything had changed and things felt wierd, and everyone was being different to me, I remeber asking my mum what the date was and she said it was November, so I'd been in the comma for a while. Anyway things were strange, like in the dream I had a dog, so I questioned that, and my mum said what you talking about we've always had a dog, and I dont have one in real life. After a series of odd things it was then that I started to say I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming and I was certain I was dreaming. I've never experienced that, I've always taken odd things in my dream as if they were normal and they made sense to me but this time I started to question. Anyway back to the dream. I can remeber trying to wake up from the dream, and I remeber going through a stage of crossing over from the dream to an awake state, but the awake state, wasn't reality awakeness, I woke up in my bed, but I was still dreaming. So this first thing about the dog and date was a dream I was having inside my dream. At this point, (I've had knowllege before of lucid dreaming) so I started to ponder if I was lucid dreaming, I felt a sense of control but it only last a few seconds before I woke up to reality.

[laughnahalf]

well i just had a dream about 37 minutes ag, and it was really vivid like i remember being scared and everything, but i didn't know i was in a dream it was just really lifelike. I bookmarked this site about 1-2 years ago and since have had alot of dreams similar to this one very realistic, but i was unable to manipulate the enviroment. Ex: one dream i even said to myself "this is so real how could it be a dream" while i was dreaming. Which lead to me thinking that dreams act out as any "real action or memory" because think to a memory that accually happened, then to dream. The only difference is that your real memory has effects on other memorys, your experiences all coordinate and have cause and effects. LOL well kinda went off there but does this dream qualify as a "lucid dream"?

[wave walker]

I can barely recall it now, but I had a dream where a beast was trying to pull me underwater in a strange way: He zoomed around a lake in circles while descending. I was worried until I said something like: "what are you worried about? It's a dream!" Upon that realization, I grabbed the thing's hand and ripped it off. The dream ended shortly after that. I still don't know if that was a semi-lucid or part of the script.

[dusty_z]

I was listning to binaural beat sequence that is supposed to induce a lucid dream. When the sequence finished i took my headfones off and set my alarm for 2 am so i could then get up and hope to have a wake induced lucid dream, I then, seemingly instantly, woke again to the sound of my alarm, but i was so tired that i just went back to sleep. I woke again at 6 am, remembering that i hadnt set my alarm and I might be late for school. so i set the alarm for 8 and went back to sleep. I woke up again at 8:30 wondering why the alarm did not go off, and also wondering why my headfones were still on. Turns out i dreapmt the whole thing. In my dream, i consciously set my alarm several times, with purpose. I remember it as if i were awake.... Was I lucid dreaming??

[Eulogy]

I guess this would be my first official lucid dream. Im at the corner store, corner bodega or whatever you wanna call it. My freind tells me to get a cigar. So i tell the cashier i want a honey palma dutch master, but when he gives it to me it's all deformed and stale. It also had the most revolting smell to it. My freind and I almost throw up in a gray garbage pale. im spitting into the pale on the brink of vomitting when it just hits me that im dreaming. I got way too exicted, you see this was the first time this has ever happened. The store turned in to a three story house and i began running up the stairs to get to the roof. I had the idea of jumping off to see what would happen. At this point im trying to run as fast as i can but not getting very far. just as im about to hit the roof i awake. The only thing im wondering is what made me realize i was dreaming.

[Drizzt-Dream-Walker]

hello i have been researching a lot about lucid dreaming lately and have been wanting to have one really bad. last night i had a dream that i was in my house sitting by the computer, and wanted to take a nap to try to have a lucid dream. once i fell asleep in my dream, i was back in my room by the computer, and i said "oh i need to do a reality check" (because i have been doing them a lot in real life and i thought this was real life) then i saw that i had too many fingers, and the time on the clock was changing. i realized i was dreaming but it was within my other dream. then i woke up from my lucid inside of my dream and was back in my normal dream and i was all excited because i thought i had a lucid and i thought my normal dream was real life. i know this is confusing, but was this a lucid dream? or just having a dream that i had a lucid dream?

[Irwanday01]

Last night I started to have nightmare. I had to crawl through a small space like a cave. Eventually I got to a point where i couldn't crawl forward anymore, so I tried to crawl backwards. I couldn't. I started to breath heavily and I was screaming for help. And then all of a sudden I said. Wait a minute i'm in a dream. And all of the anxiety and hyperventilation stopped. Next I tried to do a hand check but everything started to fade out and I woke up a minute later. I don't know if It was a lucid dream or not because It was very late in the morning and I was kind of half-asleep/half-awake, but i was dreaming. Anyway i'm glad that when i said "im dreaming" that i wasn't scared anymore. Hopefully I remember to do that everytime I start having a nightmare. Now just to be conscious enough in the dream to question reality, usually I just go along for the ride.